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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@sncag.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] fix for bugzilla #7544 (keyspan USB-to-serial converter)
In-Reply-To: <87d55w5q8s.fsf@semtex.sncag.com> (Rainer Weikusat's message of "Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:00:51 +0100")
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From: Rainer Weikusat <rainer.weikusat@sncag.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:17:19 +0100
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Rainer Weikusat <rw@semtex.sncag.com> writes:

[...]

>> And, we don't want to panic() for such a trivial thing.  Just abort the
>> probe sequence at most, but never shut down the machine for an odd
>> device that we find.
>
> I actually thought about that this morning: Considering the path this
> came from, this is not 'an odd device' but rather something like 'kernel
> memory corruption' (the 'endpoint' value originally came from the
> exact same descriptor).

This turned out to be wrong: The values are hard-coded in keyspan.h.